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Cheltenham in the Great War
Neela Mann
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Description for Cheltenham in the Great War
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWG; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Cheltenham in the Great War is the first book to portray the town, its people and the impact of the `war to end all wars' from the declaration of war in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918. Almost 1,000 Cheltenham women left by train every day for munitions work, hundreds made airplanes in the Winter Gardens, many were nurses and most former suffragettes joined the WVR. Why did two schools do double shifts and for what did the townspeople raise GBP186,000 in one week in 1918? How did Cheltenham cope with 7,250 soldiers billeted in the town ... Read more
Cheltenham in the Great War is the first book to portray the town, its people and the impact of the `war to end all wars' from the declaration of war in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918. Almost 1,000 Cheltenham women left by train every day for munitions work, hundreds made airplanes in the Winter Gardens, many were nurses and most former suffragettes joined the WVR. Why did two schools do double shifts and for what did the townspeople raise GBP186,000 in one week in 1918? How did Cheltenham cope with 7,250 soldiers billeted in the town ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750964159
SKU
V9780750964159
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Neela Mann
Neela Man has been Director of Warwick Words Literary Festival for 12 years and is on the committee of the Cheltenham Local History Society. In addition she is the Meeting Secretary of the Cheltenham branch of the U3A and, as a former publisher at Scholastic, also lectures in copyright.
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